2:46 PM,
Mar. 20, 2013

Written by

Deborah Barfield Berry
Gannett Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON - Democratic Sen. Mary Landrieu of Louisiana joined Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska on Wednesday in introducing legislation designed to guarantee coastal states their "fair share'' of energy production revenue.

The FAIR Act (for Fixing American's Inequities with Revenue) would send up to 37.5 percent of revenue from offshore energy production back to coastal states where it is produced.

Gulf Coast lawmakers complain that, while inland states may keep 50 percent of energy revenue produced on federal lands, revenue from offshore energy production is sent to the ...